Patterns Quotes

• Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

  Dennis Prager

  Essence, Findings

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• I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Past, Connections

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• Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Beauty, Dark, Light

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• When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

  Tuli Kupferberg

  Change, Healing, Past

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• To understand is to perceive patterns.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Wisdom, Understanding, Language

  Isaiah Berlin (1959). “Historical Inevitability”

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• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  Sai Baba

  Inspirational, Future, Past

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Individual, Thread

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

  Henry Mintzberg

  Decision, Strategy, Streams

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Recognition, Enjoyment

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Martial Arts, Truth Is, Express Yourself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing

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• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

  Henry James

  Judging, Unseen, Pieces

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Recognition, Enjoyment

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Pride, Doe

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• Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.

  Agnes Denes

  Keys, Numbers, Mind

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• One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

  Robert Graves

  Heart, Color, Different

  "Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul". Book by Candia L Sanders, p. 19, 2013.

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• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  Kate DiCamillo

  I Can

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• No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [37]

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• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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• Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

  Al Capp

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Life, Work Out, Inspire

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• In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

  Emanuel Celler

  Book, Home, House

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Awareness, Behavior, Persons

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• Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

  Marilyn Ferguson

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